Mass Effect: Legendary Edition

I will definitely be investing time and money into the remasters...
But I'll be waiting for that first 25% discount, I'm frugal like that. Probably because I have so many unfinished games.

Played a good bit of Mass Effect 2 when it came out and finished Mass Effect 3.
Looking forward to playing them all from start to finish.

a reply to: vlawde

I own and have played all three mass effect games, mass effect one on steam, two on a disc and three on EA's origin.

They were GOOD games but not the best by a long shot, where however they excelled was as interactive science fiction movies with game level's leading to each part of the story.

Better games are in the waiting, one is the remake of Knights of the Old Republic which is getting a complete remake and overhaul basically from the ground up and I hope they do it justice.

But ME Legendary is by all accounts just an aesthetic upgrade to the older game and guess what if you look around mod sites there are already tons of mod's that overhaul everything from the character models to the textures to the lighting affects including ENB's and Reshades.

Yes EA are just if you will forgive me my opinion that is, Just milking an old game for everything it is worth and charging full price and in fact MORE than it originally cost?.

Corporate crap at it's worst in my opinion.

The Upgrade should have been released as a patch for those that already own it - UNLESS - it is a full remake with new game mechanics and a new game engine but even then the story which was the main driver behind the original game is just going to be the same as it was in the old one (and of course I have heard they are toning down some of the female characters to please the PC crowd because they were a bit too sexy for the overweight game critics that mostly don't even play them out there.

If it is a free upgrade since I already own it fine, if they want me to shell out another half a hundred they can go blow an inflatable doll.

Kotor and the rumoured open world star wars RPG are where it is at for me (besides in my opinion ME was just another version of Advent Rising which was a brilliant but very badly over looked game, there are remasters for that as well, anyone who played both games will have immediately seen Advent rising in Mass Effect, drivable vehicles even flyable space ship's, multiple worlds, ancient alien ruins etc, were ME built on it was that it was a much larger tapestry and the story was the same but also different and while Advent rising was basically a third person shooter ME was an interactive story book).

IT's older than mass effect but many of the same team and designers worked on both games, the models are made for an earlier generation of hardware so are not as complex but it was arguably a brilliant and very badly even criminally under rated game perhaps due to bug's that were mostly but not all fixed.



Sadly it was envisaged to be the first of a trilogy of Games (ME anyone) but due to the bad press when first released the second and third were cancelled but arguably the story is more coherent and better than the ME story and it is the game they REALLY should be remastering.


Besides EA has a lot to be forgiven for, they are not winning any kudos from me on this one, they released a poisonous title in ME Andromeda and it was one of my all time most regretted purchases until Cyberpunk 2077 did the same and made me vow never again to by a CDPR game.

I'm honestly not sure if I want pay money for ME2 again. The mechanics were fine and I enjoyed the challenge, but I didn't like the story.

a reply to: ketsuko

Really? I loved the story! All the aliens were just great. Awesome design.

I was thinking about getting it on PC is it worth it? I also played all 3 over the years!

originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: ketsuko

Really? I loved the story! All the aliens were just great. Awesome design.

I got really attached to the ME1 companions. I was invested in that story. I had zero interest in any of the ME2 companions except Garrus who was one of my favorites from ME1.

The story itself might have been passable except we had to do so many loyalty missions that I felt like I spent all my game time running around solving everyone else's daddy issues. Seriously. Almost every single companion. Daddy. Issue.

Jacob Taylor - abandoned by father who turns out to be tyrannical monster - Daddy issue
Miranda Lawson - genetically engineered perfect person by her father, turns on him, takes her sister away before she can be turned into a monster; father pursues her and sister - Daddy issue
Garrus Vakarian - spurred to leave C-SEC by daddy issues, becomes Archangel, loses squad, goes on vengeance trip - Daddy issue
Grunt - whole thing is set up by not having a proper father
Jack - Amazingly not a daddy issue exactly, but I loathe her so it doesn't matter
Mordin Solus - Has to chase down mentee gone wrong. Daddy issue
Samara - has to kill her own daughter - daddy issue
Tali - trying to live up to her father's name and clear it - daddy issue
Thane Krios - saving son gone bad - daddy issue
Legion - interesting

Do I look like Shepard, interspace counseling?

originally posted by: Peeple
a reply to: vlawde

Oh the Thorian...
Always use the big gun the MG is useless, accelerate, shoot with the rocket-ish thingy and backwards out before they can hit you.

You picked a really hard one if you just want to level up?

I'm guessing there's another after Feros? I was expecting hell, and it was pretty easy. Shoot the nodes in the various tentacle around the area, kill hordes of creepers and the green lady, and the thorian just died, and I made a new friend.

I've forgotten how the maps in 2 and 3 are, but I have a hard time even bringing up the full map trying to figure out where I'm supposed to goal. I spent hours after saving the controlled settlers there trying to figure where to go next to find the thorian or whatever

a reply to: ketsuko


Read that and could not find fault, made me chuckle aloud as well.

Very well observed, I was too engrossed in the story to analyse the characters but you can throw Luke Skywalker into that category as well and several other major characters in many movies, even Indian jones but that was in his later movies like Daddy issues was the trend of the time or something, you seldom see working, happy or functional family's portrayed because they are boring until something goes wrong yet the proverbial nuclear family is something we desperately need to recreate or our society's seem to be doomed.

I shall have to start paying more attention to the characters and plots in future because I obviously missed the dark humour there.

a reply to: LABTECH767

And the thing is that there were some promising characters in the mix, but there were just too many overall.

Another thing I hated was the regimented approach to companion chats. Solve my issues or I won't talk to you and get to know you, and even worse, if you can romance me, things get awkward fast. I know it works that way in all the other BioWare games, but the thresholds that unlock certain dialogue options felt more organic in other games and less stilted/regimented.

Good lord! And I'd like to talk to Jacob as FemShep without feeling like a cheap come-on all the time. I did discover that as his thread progressed into ME3, I really didn't like him much as a character overall, so I don't spend a whole lot of time talking with him and I'm glad I never went for the PRIIIIZE.

a reply to: vlawde

Well maybe you shouldn't have played on easy?
To me it was super hard with the many mad citizens and only so few grenades.

a reply to: ketsuko

lol well that's not untrue I guess, but those all make totally sense as most important loose ends.
My Shep only had a romance with Kaidan and after that no interest in pursuing anyone else in more than a professional friendship, heartbroken with the fate of the universe at stakes and all...

a reply to: Peeple

Mine was the same, but my point was that it felt like they wrote the game expecting every player to want bang everything that moved.

a reply to: ketsuko

Digital girl and boyfriends are all the rage in some nations, wonder why there birth rates are dropping?.

They even have a name for it in Japan but I can't recall it off the top of my head.

As a guy I can say I find the romance scenes in just about every game that they appear in from ME to The Witcher cringeworthy.

The game developers are missing a trick in not just copying the old black and white Hollywood movies were all you really needed as a kiss and fade to black (some of those fem fatal scenes were hotter and far more sexy than the modern take on what they think is romantic which is usually a pair of sweaty people in a bed ruining the sheets or even worse destroying the worktop in a back kitchen I mean good lord people have to make food there).

But adolescents are a market for these guy's and that makes you wonder if this kind of market place exploitation may be should be regarded as something far more serious, oh they can stick all the rating they want on a game but of course these company's know that there main target audience will always be kid's, yes since I represent a generation who began computer gaming in the 80's and 90's there are older players but most have outgrown it or just do it out of sheer boredom or because they can see the screen but the print in those novels they used to read has just gotten a wee bit too small and blurred as age catches up (cough) - (anyway that me trying to wriggle out of the fact I still game on occasion even at my age haha).

I played the female Eivor in AC Valhalla (still not totally done yet) and liked the fact she could swing both ways. Most encounters were casual, but the main option with Randvi can effect the game's outcome. I actually thing most sex in videogames is humorous at best, and not arousing or necessary. But again, I'm not 18 years old either

Peeple, I did switch to easy! The zombified folks (not the creepers) I just meleed, didn't bother with grenades

OMG the reason why this legendary edition is basically a must-have

A NEW ONE IS COMING!!!

a reply to: vlawde

Finished ME1 and now onto ME2, little dissapointed with the contrast levels though, it seems so dark in places

playing on X1X

May be the HDR effects, I thought it looked really good. ME1 was ok, just starting the second and much better graphics and especially color. Have you tried tweaking the HDR settings of the game?

a reply to: vlawde

I have tried adjusting various settings but to no avail

there is also other reports across all platforms of the issue

reddit ME2 too dark

A patch was released yesterday that addressed the dark issue.

Noticing how much different ME2 is compared to the first, it's a lot harder and there's not a lot of guidance in getting started/controls etc. I feel kind of lost, but slowly getting the hang of it. It's off that even though I played it and the others when they first came out that I remember ME 1 pretty well, ME2 not so much, aside from Miranda and the Illusive man

Still not done yet, deep into ME3 right now. I love the new content, there's more stuff in the Citadel like a casino, I got gifted an awesome apartment, threw a kickass party with pretty much everyone there. I'm gonna draw this out and do everything I can/talk to everyone and follow leads, I don't want it to end. Great to see they added more humor in the new content as well I literally have spent around 2 hours most days playing since I first bought the game in June